Divine Beings: Cursed Awakenings

RayZor

Quick Note: To those who are still reading this trilogy, I love you. To those who have recently discovered this trilogy, I love you too. To those of you who like reading my works - that's, like, one person - I'm going to tell you this now. All other stories are on hiatus - maybe permanently - due to lack of wanting to write. My Clouffie fic's probably not going to be finished. This is going to be my last chaptered fic for a long while. After this, I'm sticking to one-shots and drabbles. This prologue's gonne jump around a lot. You've been warned.

Where is she?

Are you really so upset over her disappearing? She lied to you and accepted Fox into her body.

SHUT UP! Where the fuck is she? I can't find her!

Open your eyes and look. Maybe Reina did, indeed, take her?

... I think I've found her...

Prologue: Disturbing Scenes

Hazel eyes caught sight of her before the others could catch up with him. Her body lay still, completely motionless. No breath made her chest rise and fall, no peaceful smile over her face. She looked so... Wrong... Lying there in a pool of her own blood, sword still embedded in her stomach. He had found her sprawled on the ground just outside Corel. He had thought she had gotten mad at him and had decided to go for a walk, so he went to look for her.

Surka arrived next, but stopped, frozen in her tracks at the sight of the bloodied ninja. "Oh, Yuffie," she mumbled.

Tael arrived next, but turned away quickly. She hated seeing blood, seeing it on a body was that much worse. Vincent and Kais came last. The once-demon-possessed man felt his heart stop beating in his chest and a lump rise to his throat, blocking all oxygen from getting to his lungs. Kais stood there dumb-struck.

"Yu-Yuffie." Sephiroth called weakly, collapsing to his knees beside her. "Yuffie, please..." He placed a hand on her cheek, hoping to wake her. It was cold.

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Lilac eyes shone with impecable happiness. She could smile no matter what the circumstances.

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A shuriken tore through the air and sliced at a frog as Cloud and Barret hopped around dumbly, having forgotten their ribbons.

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A ninja buried her face into Vincent's cloak late one night, sobbing fierce tears of pain and anguish. Godo had never been proud of her, she had told her older friend. He merely wanted materia. He had transformed her town into a Leviathon-damned tourist trap.

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"Holy, Meteor, and icicles in Hades's nostrils!"

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Vincent felt a hand on his shoulder and glanced back to see Tael standing there, dark eyes warm and full of understanding. He realized that he was sitting for the first time since they had found Yuffie's body earlier that morning. It was late, but he could not sleep. Sephiroth was lying on the bed, hands behind his head, hazel eyes staring at the ceiling. Both of them were emotional wrecks.

"You both should eat something," a voice said from the doorway. Vincent started, looking over to see Tifa Lockheart standing there, tears still streaming down her face. Cloud was behind her, eyes downcast.

"Tifa," Vicnent acknowledged. "Glad to see you again, though I wish it were under happier circumstances."

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"Nothing's ever wrong, it's just not right," the ninja told her friend.

Tifa laughed at the mixed logic, walking alongside Yuffie, Aerith on her other side. "The not right would be wrong, Yuffie."

"Nuh-uh!" the ninja protested, grinning from ear to ear still. "That's like saying x + 2 y, so x has to be 5."

"That made no sense," Aerith giggled, but Yuffie shrugged.

"Anyway, I still think that people can change, no matter how bad they are. I mean, if we could get that Jenova freak away from Sephiroth, he might be a pretty cool guy, y'know?"

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Kaisinistics slammed his fist into a tree, smashing a good-sized hole. Surka watched him passively, never flinching at his words. "REINA!" he bellowed, trying to get his sister's attention. "Reina, you fucking bitch, show your face!"

Then she was there, standing before him. "Oh, dear brother, what is wrong?" she asked with an air of innocence.

"I'm going to fucking kill you," he seethed. He started toward his twin, eyes flashing, sword materializing in his hands. Mako eyes watched him as she drew her own sword.

"Then we shall fight forever, Brother... We are naught but the same. The Balance Keepers, if you will."

Surka stepped between Kais and Reina, the Maxima Rex - her sword - in her hand. "I shall not leave until dismissed, I will not be dismissed until you are gone!"

The clanking of metal on metal resounded through the late night forest. The battle had begun.

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Sephiroth stood, eyes watching anything except the door to the room that Yuffie was within. "I'm going to... I don't know," he mumbled and left the room. Tifa watched him with saddened eyes as Tael leapt to her feet to follow.

"Leave him," Cloud instructed her.

"But... Both he and Vincent-"

"Loved the same ninja. They need time to think, to grieve alone," Tifa explained, falling into her boyfriend's warm embrace. "We all do."

End of Prologue: Disturbing Scenes